Been thinking about the Core/#Knots debate.
Going back to first principles and Satoshi's Bitcoin Whitepaper:
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- First Principle 1: Bitcoin is a monetary network
"peer-to-peer electronic cash"
- First Principle 2: "Honest" nodes secure the network
"The system is secure as long as honest nodes collectively control more CPU power than any cooperating group of attacker nodes."
- First Principle 3: Nodes keep the network decentralized
"peer-to-peer"
- First Principle 4: Bitcoin must remain decentralized and secure to function as a monetary network
Bitcoin, as it was originally intended ("peer-to-peer electronic cash"), dissolves the false illusion of fiat by imposing Universal Laws in service to humanity and thus transforms the world.
Bitcoin Core v30 Related to:
- First Principle 1: Violates Bitcoin as a monetary network by welcoming larger non-monetary data on to the blockchain
- First Principle 2: Compromises Bitcoin's security when nodes become public data storage forced to hold and relay illegal content uploaded to the blockchain by bad actors
- First Principle 3: Compromises decentralization when it becomes too expensive, too complex, or illegal for regular individuals to run a node because the blockchain is bloated with non-monetary / illegal data
- First Principle 4: Bitcoin is no longer a decentralized or secure monetary network if the previous first principles are violated
Bitcoin, as storage for .jpegs and other non-monetary content, becomes a shitcoin.
Core is not Bitcoin; we are Bitcoin.
There is a thin line between "Bitcoin will be fine" and "we need to act to keep Bitcoin fine." The simple solution is to vote with your node ๐งก
On a positive note:
- This debate is strengthening Bitcoin as a monetary network; it is getting more plebs involved, running and actively managing their nodes.
- It has made the issue of centralized mining more visible to the community and invited more plebs to run solominers.
- It has also provided excellent signal! I'm grateful to be connecting with a lot more nodes who deeply care about this protocol for humanity and know what Bitcoin entails far beyond "1s and 0s"โก๏ธโจ
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